League of Legends Circuit Oceania

The League of Legends Circuit Oceania (LCO) is the top-level of professional League of Legends competition in Oceania,[lower-alpha 1] founded in 2021 and organized by ESL Australia and Guinevere Capital, replaced the Oceanic Pro League (OPL) that was hosted by Riot Games Oceania from 2015 to 2020.[1][2][3] There are eight teams in the league. The winners of LCO Split 1 qualified for the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), while the winners of Split 2 qualified for the World Championship.

League of Legends Circuit Oceania
FormerlyOceanic Pro League
GameLeague of Legends
Founded2021 (2021)
Owner(s)ESL Australia
Guinevere Capital
No. of teams8
CountriesOceania
Official websitehttps://lco.gg/

Format

Regular season
  • Eight teams participate.
  • Double round-robin, best-of-one.
  • Top five teams advance to playoffs.

Playoffs
  • Five teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket.
    • The 1st-place team from regular season receives a bye to begin in the second round of winners' bracket.
    • The 2nd and 3rd-place teams begin in the first round of the winners' bracket.
    • The 4th and 5h-place teams begin in the first round of the losers' bracket.

The winner of the each split will represent Oceania at the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship respectively.

Broadcast Team
ID Name Role
Elfishguy Jordan Mays Play-by-Play Caster
Skimmy Andre Allchin
Juves Brandon Defina Color Caster
Rusty Zack Pye

Teams
Teams Roster
Top Jungle Mid Bot Support
Chiefs Esports Club Lived Swathe Kisee Raes Dragku
Dire Wolves Claire Kevy/Only Shok gunkrab Cupcake
Gravitas Nobody/Tyran/Tomasino Azus/Akano DaJueng/Havik Piglet/Thomas Shen Vxpir/Entrust/Floppy
Legacy Esports Winterer Sybol Incursio styled emelg
MAMMOTH Nectaar Buggy Wayy Shyfrit Shinki
ORDER Maximize Vengeance Chungy Puma Beats
PEACE Apii Babip Halo Violet Aladoric
Pentanet.GG BioPanther Pabu Chazz Praedyth Decoy

Result
Year Split Champion Runner-up Third-place Fourth-place
2021 1 Pentanet.GG PEACE Chiefs Esports Club Dire Wolves
2 PEACE Pentanet.GG Dire Wolves ORDER

Notes
  1. Most domestic players of Oceanic countries are from either Australia or New Zealand.

References
  1. Byers, Preston (18 December 2020). "ESL, Guinevere Capital to operate new 8-team Oceanic League of Legends league". Dot Esports. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  2. "LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CIRCUIT OCEANIA LAUNCHES THIS FEBRUARY". about.eslgaming.com. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "ESL Australia's Twitter".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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